Free Survey Maker for Podcasters

Mike Bivens
4 min readJun 2, 2021

Surveys are incredibly valuable tools to engage your audience and to better understand them beyond where they are from and what device they are using to listen to your episodes. While these metrics are great and have their uses, distributing a survey amongst your community gives you an easy opportunity to understand why they listen, what content from your show is the most interesting to them, and gauge what directions you should consider as you plan for the future.

There are numerous survey makers available on the internet with free and paid options available, while the paid options typically provide greater customer support, more questions, better analytics, and features, there are still many options that can provide valuable data to you and your podcast. This article is going to focus on the free versions of these survey makers, whether you’re a hobby or professional podcaster knowing your free options are important if you’re trying to be thrifty with your budget.

surveyplanet

Image via https://surveyplanet.com/

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited
# of Free Questions: Unlimited
# of Free Responses: Unlimited

Top Features

  • No Data-Mining or Information Selling
  • Survey Embedding
  • Opening and Closing Messages
  • Anonymous Data & Responses

Survey Monkey

Image via https://www.surveymonkey.com/

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited
# of Free Questions: 10/survey
# of Free Responses: 40/survey

Top Features

  • 24/7 Email Support
  • iOS and Android Mobile App
  • Password Protected Surveys
  • 40 Short Survey Templates
  • Create Survey in Any Language

Google Forms

Image via https://www.google.com/forms/about/

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited
# of Free Questions: Up to 2000 choices
# of Free Responses: Unlimited

Top Features

  • Choose from curated themes or let google match colors to your own photo or logo.
  • Easy Export to Google Sheets
  • Logic Jumps
  • Free with Google account
  • Collaborators added as easily as any other Google Suite product

Qualtrics

Image via https://www.qualtrics.com/free-account/

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited (only 1 active at a time)
# of Free Questions: 15/survey
# of Free Responses: 100

Top Features

  • Over 50 industry expert designed templates
  • 8 Question Types
  • Distribute through email and online
  • Built-in survey expert to assist

SoGoSurvey

Image via https://www.sogosurvey.com/help/design-tab-tour/

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited
# of Free Questions: Unlimited
# of Free Responses: 200 email invitations and responses/year and 100 email invitations and responses/survey/year

Top Features

  • Deploy survey in 40 different languages
  • Print your survey in MS Word or Adobe PDF
  • Branching/Skip Logic
  • Pre-Built Templates
  • Embed Multimedia

ProProfs

Image via https://www.proprofs.com/survey/

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited
# of Free Questions: Undetermined
# of Free Responses: 10

Top Features

  • Poll Maker
  • No Advertisements
  • Custom Branding
  • Custom Welcome & Thank You Screen

SurveySparrow

Image via https://surveysparrow.com/enterprise-survey-software/

# of Free Surveys: Undetermined
# of Free Questions:10/survey
# of Free Responses: 100/month

Top Features

  • Embeddable Surveys
  • 1500+ App Integrations with Zapier
  • Custom Reports Filter

Alchemer

Image via https://help.alchemer.com/help/add-a-question

# of Free Surveys: 3
# of Free Questions: Undetermined
# of Free Responses: 100/survey

Top Features

  • Export to CSV/Excel
  • Standard Reports
  • 10 Question Tpes

ZOHO Survey

Image via https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/survey/design/themes/articles/survey-themes#Custom_Theme

# of Free Surveys: Unlimited
# of Free Questions: 10/survey
# of Free Responses: 100/survey

Top Features

  • Password Protections
  • Real-Time Responses
  • Export as PDF
  • Over 250 Survey Templates
  • Embed questions in emails

Typeform

Typeform’s question maker
Image via https://help.typeform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051639751

# of Free Surveys: 3
# of Free Questions: 10/survey
# of Free Responses: 100/month

Top Features

  • Slack Integration
  • Google Sheets Integration
  • Embedding in Websites
  • Library of Templates
  • Library of Templates

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Mike Bivens
Mike Bivens

Written by Mike Bivens

Mike is a freelance creative and content creator with a passion for engaging audiences across different platforms.

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